Ageing Futures

The Ageing Futures SIG is a collective open to researchers and practitioners with an interest in future opportunities afforded to humanity as we age. We are all by now familiar with the rhetoric of demographic ageing – the age of longevity, the 100-year life, the ‘contagion’ of loneliness and the ‘problem’ of adult social care. We counter the deficit and instrumental focus on meeting needs in much of this discourse and instead adopt an asset based and relational approach to consider, question, and speculate about ageing across the life-course, and how future later lives are co-created (or resisted) with emerging socio-technical, political, and economic assemblages.

Our current activities cut across the following thematic areas:

• Pleasure, play and desire
• More-than-human ageing
• Diversity and inequality
• Age friendly communities and housing
• Intergenerational collectives
• Death, dying and bereavement
• Futures of caring and care relationships
• Newly ageing populations
• Time and temporalities in gerontological research
• Methods and design for ageing futures-making otherwise